Breast Cancer

Hugs and Drugs - Breastcancer.org

Original Posting by Laurel My Bond In case you’ve been living under a rock, Amma is an Indian woman who travels around the world giving out hugs. She’s hugged millions and millions of people and i...

Happy National Cancer Survivors Day!

Original Post by Sara OB Today there are 14 million cancer survivors living in the United States. Today is National Cancer Survivors Day and the goal is to increase the quality of life and have he...

Could eating vegetables reduce breast cancer risk?

Millions of women worldwide receive combined estrogen and progestin hormone replacement therapy to counter the unwanted effects of menopause. Yet studies are increasingly suggesting the use of suc...

Breast Cancer Gene Test Helps Predict Who Can Skip Chemo

For the past 10 years, doctors have used a genetic test to decide which patients may be able to skip chemotherapy after surgery for breast cancer. Now a study confirms that this test, called Oncot...

The Cancer Solution Taking Charge of Your Life with Cancer

The sun rises and the sun sets. It seems like the sun rotates around the Earth. Cancer cells rise and are killed by surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. It seems like cancer is a disease. The sun ...

Personal Stories: Karen Alleyne-Means

Meet Prash: Postdoctoral Bioinformatics Researcher

MyID Breast Cancer is honored to sponsor a post by Prashanth Suravajhala, a biologist and bioinformatician who built and released a database in 2007 contains all human hypothetical proteins.   Ple...

Innovative Products: The PICC Band

Chaitenya Razdan, co-founder of Care+Wear, tells us about the company’s first product in creating “innovative healthwear for patients everywhere” Family and friends, like our friend Caroline who h...

Role of Long Noncoding RNAs in Breast Cancer: Are New Markers for the Cure?

Written by Prashanth Suravajhala. Published with permission. Majority of the eukaryotic genomes do not code for proteins, i.e. there are regions that might originate within the organisms or tissue...

Life Insurance After Cancer Diagnosis

A diagnosis of cancer, no matter how mild, turns peoples’ thoughts to those they love. And concern for loved ones sometimes brings up thoughts of life insurance. Can people get life insurance whil...